Here’s an excerpt from the latest by raw milk author David E. Gumpert:
Organic Pastures' Mark McAfee, out standing in his field. Mark has been a leader in taking raw milk farther into mainstream market penetration in California. AP photo by Gary Kazanjian
“There’s an interesting phenomenon going on now around raw milk. It is gradually, but very definitely, moving more toward the mainstream. Increasingly, the media are writing more objectively, the latest example being Jill Richardson’s even-handed assessment of the politics of raw milk on Alternet.
One of the things that tends to happen as you move from the fringes to the mainstream, though, is that you tend to come under increasing public scrutiny. We’ve seen one example in the intense focus on the outsourcing practices of Organic Pastures Dairy Co., which Jill Richardson’s article highlighted (and continues to be a subject of intense debate on my most recent couple of postings).
We see another example in the four-part series comparing raw and pasteurized milk that has unfolded on the blog of food poisoning lawyer Bill Marler, who is close to many state and federal regulators, and has been notable for his anti-raw-milk stance in the past….”
Read the whole of David’s excellent report here on the Complete Patient blog.
